While NLM/LHNCBC-funded VHP research and development were completed in 1996, the VHP data sets are still being licensed to researchers and research articles are still acknowledging their use of VHP data. Links to VHP citations in NLM's Current Bibliographies in Medicine are given below.

NLM thanks the man and the woman who each willed their body to science, thereby enabling this research and development.

The header above contain three images created from Visible Human Data around 2000 in contrast to similar images drawn by Leonardo DaVinci around 1500.

HISTORY

The Visible Human Project® was an outgrowth of NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. Its long-term goal was to produce a system of knowledge structures that transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.

The Project involved the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. It included the acquisition of transverse CT, MRI, and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.

The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center was the contractor for this project.

AnatQuest: The overall goal of the AnatQuest project is to explore and implement new visually and compelling ways to bring anatomic images from the Visible Human dataset to the general public. Includes 3D renderings and labeled views.

Cryosection, MRI, and CT image data of the head of a 72 year old male. Cryosections done at 0.174mm intervals and photographed at a resolution of 1056 x 1528 pixels. Work done at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, under contract to NLM. Available only to VHP license holders. These images can be found in the directory BWH_Harvard when logged on to the NLM image server.

Insight Toolkit (ITK): An open-source software toolkit for performing registration and segmentation, developed by six principal organizations under contract to the NLM, three commercial (Kitware, GE Corporate R&D, and Insightful), and three academic (UNC Chapel Hill, University of Utah, and University of Pennsylvania).

The Visible Human Project ATLAS of Functional Human Anatomy, version 1.0 The Head and Neck, developed under contract to NLM by the University of Colorado Center for Human Simulation.

The conferences were held at the William H. Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The information presented here is identical to that distributed on CD-ROM to conference attendees. Please refer to section "Disc Info" or "About This CD-ROM", for pertinent information.

The Fourth Visible Human Project® Conference. 2002. No further information available online.